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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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Compassion Difficult Himself Listening
It is grace that forms the void inside us and it is grace that can fill the void.
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Empty Grace
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
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Aware Desire Meditation Ourselves
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
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Inability Light Mistake Ourselves
Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.
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Beautiful Fortunate Sky
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
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Creation God Imagination Ourselves Place
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
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Beautiful Definition Science True World
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering

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